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Reporting
from Catatumbo, a region in northern Colombia dominated by guerrillas and drug
traffickers, has always been challenging. But working conditions for
journalists have seriously deteriorated amid nearly two months of
anti-government protests pitting thousands of angry peasant farmers against
soldiers and riot police.

Many state media in Latin American are used for
political propaganda, but the Venezuelan government has built an unprecedented
media empire that it uses to attack critics and independent journalists and
obscure issues like crime and inflation. By
Carlos Lauría